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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure'
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:20:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5460673E.8000002@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vhbnof8r2u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Glenn Morris wrote:
> As you say, a srcdir with spaces is impossible, and given the way
> Makefiles work, it seems to me like it always will be.

As I understand it the next version of GNU Make will address this issue, which 
means that once that we can assume that version everywhere (a few years from 
now), we might be able to pull it off.  Admittedly this is not much comfort to a 
builder who wants spaces in directory names today....



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-10  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10  2:28 Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure' Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10  7:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10  7:20   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2014-11-10  8:26     ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10 14:28       ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-10 15:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 16:03           ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 16:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 17:17             ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10 18:04               ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-10 19:25                 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10 19:39                   ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-17  2:24                     ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10 10:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10  7:17 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-10  7:24   ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-10  9:04     ` Andreas Schwab

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